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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
A WEEK OF BRITISH Awaiting the Prince's uso in
FLYING NEWS,
South Amerien.
PILOTING AIRCRAFT
IN FOG.
Early next month the King's. machine, together with five "Gipsy SOUND BEACON FOR 'PLANES Moth" biplanes purchased to form
A wireless "bescon" to guide part of the flying equipment of the Iraqi Air Force, will be flown to air liners in hnd visibility has been erected by the French Air Ministry Iraq by Iraqi pilots who have taken
",,!
TWO-SEATER AUTOGIROS.
120 MILES AN HOUR.
READY FOR SALE THIS
·SUMMER.
A British deroplane capable of taking-off and landing in à fair- sized garden is to lie brought within reach of the private owner during the summer.
THE GREAT - DAYS OF SAIL.
(Continued from Page 1.)
In The Great Day of Sail" (109. 8d.), Capt. Andrew Shewan- Into master of that well-known craft the Norman Court, tells the story. of his personal experiences in ond of the frigate-built Indienon of Green's, Wigram's, and Dunbar's from Black-wall, in the time when
his successful career as a deck-boy Sir Walter Runciman commenced
"Geordie" brig, coal-carry.
It is the de Havilland Autogiro, a helicopter type of "acroplane within
NIGHT MAIL AIR SERVICES.
LONDON, Mar. 10. Day and night air mail services. Sinking London with the most die tant parts of the Empire in little an extensive course in flying trainat Abbeville, and has just completed horizontal rotating vanca, knowing on the North-east coast. These
its first trials. Air Union pilots | popularly as the "windmill," and flying on the Golden Ray" Lon-it is now being built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company at don-Paris service have been, using
their Stag-lane aerodrome, Edg the beam with complete' succesÐ. «
ware, Middlesex, on designs aub) The principle of the beam is the mitted by the Cierva Autogiro continuous signal" made up of
Company,
more than a week, are, according to authoritative British expert opinion, well within the bounds of possibility.
1930
ing with the Royal Air Force. A second "Puss Moth," the machine which belonged formerly to the Prince of Wales, is now the property of Sir Francis Humphrys, High Commissioner for Iraq,, and this, too, will be delivered by air, THE MILITANT “MOTH," Four of the "Gipsy Moth" craft try, in the course of an interview are specially constructed and equip. with Lord Amulree, the Air Minis ped machines, illustrating admir ter, arranged for a deputation of
The following schedule of regu lar, business-like operation, depen dent on the establishment of high-' speed service concerned solely with the earringe of mails, was sketched by Sir. Robert MoLean, who is one of the lending men in the British aircraft indus
two separate letters, F and L in Morse code. The signal is received through the ordinary head tele, phones, and so long as the sound ia unbroken the pilot is on straight course between Dover and Paris.
13.
If the pilot deviates from the
were the palmy days when Aberdeen and Peterhead weve the great whil- ing porta
Capt. Showin tells us all about the China ten slippers, which lond-
ed at Pagoda Anchorage, so well known to all China rangers, and before these were roplaced by steam, how they raced each other down the China Son against monsoons,
The machine will be constructed op similar lines to the famous Puss Moth light aeroplane, and will be especially suitable for the private then across the Indian Ocean, and pilot.
In describing the advantages of this new rival to the light nero- plane, Mr. R. Blake of the Cierva company, has stated.
"The new de Havilland Autogiro
the London Chamber of Commerce,ably the warlike potentialities of It epitomises the possibilities of the modern light aeroplane. They immediate and dramatic accelera have welded steel fuselages, 126 course he hears either the F or the will be ready for sale early in the
h.p." Gipsy 11. air-cooled motors, L sounds alone. The maximunenbin machine, capable of
tion in all existing air services. The times. quoted were:- London to Calcutta... al days London to Sydney ..... 73 days London to Wellington,
N.Z.
B) days Acceleration of this order in
valves a 24-hour schedule through- out the fight and the efficient lighting for night navigation of the routes. Given this organisation
there is no doubt that British air- craft constructors are, to-day in a position to build immediately fast
summer.
It will be a two-senter"
top
extra fuel tanks sufficient to extend error over Paris, according to the speed of more than 120 miles an hour Less than 30 yards is requir. ed for taking-off, and the machine will have a minimum air. speed of 23 miles an hour and lands almost vertically.
the operational range in still air to Air Union teats is one mile. The so miles, drinking-water tank, airwave length on which the beam tight ration containers, and mili. workar is 000m,
It is proposed to instal at Le Bourget a The
round more than a mile long, and
leader cable in the
with this and the beacon it is thought that pilots will be able to
in thick fog.
tary equipment consisting of bombs, aerial camera and wireless. four 20-pound homhs are carried, is special racks located under the fuselage, and are controlled by aeroplanes which would maintain release gear in the front cockpit,rench Le Bourget without difficulty such a schedule with ease, cruising | In the floor of the front cockpit is with full lord of mails on board at
the camera, mounted in take very speeds around 150 and 160 miles
tical photographs. The rear cock. an hour.
it contains complete wirelesss re eeiving and transmitting outfit, signalling pistol and cartridges and fire extinguisher. have seats designed to carry para chutes.
Sir Robert McLean pointed out that the average speed in summer on the Indian air route between London and Karachi, operated by air liners carrying mails and pas
sengers, was about 28 miles an hour, Mails, he added, should not be kept stationary for 10 hours of the 24 because they had to travel at the same rate ny passengers. Passengers and mails should be separated. Where traffic did not justify separate passenger and mail services over a route a mail service operating on 11 24-hour schedule' should be given preference.. EXTENDING THE AIR ROUTE
TO AUSTRALIA.
Lord Amulree, who expressed much sympathy with the opinion that the development of efficient day and night air mail services was desimble, stated that proposals for extending the England-Indinser- vice to Australia were being, con-
sidered by Australin and by the Governments of India and of the
Straits Settlements.
Both cockpits
It is hoped that the sound signal will be replaced in the near future
around the Cape to be first in Lon- don River for a money price. The long list of these beautiful ships, Ariel, Thermopyle, Cutty Sark, and Norman Court, and so on, will be remembered.
Chiness. pirates and all the other dangers of the Far East are woven in, with descriptive illustrations of the men to whose enterprise this commerce of the ocean was due, not least of whom was the, now legen- dary, John Lewis.
Capt. Rex Clements contributes an instructive foreword, and the "Outstanding advantages possess.
deeply-interesting text is illustrat by this type of aeroplane are that the danger attending forceded by '16 reproductions of original
photographs. landings in strange country is negligible, and roof tops and gar...
Of a similar nature is the finely- dens may soon be termed ideal land-produced voline, Yarns of the
ing grounds."
New Transport Flan. Colonel J. Josselyn, managing
Seven Seas" (7s. 6d:), by. Comdr. F. G. Cooper, R.N.R., which is pre- faced by an introduced by Capt. Sir Arthur. Rostron, R.N.R., and
by a light signal in the pilot's cock director of the Cierva Autogiro there is an excellent frontispiced Company, who took part in a con- in colour by the well-known marino ference with railway experts in con- artist, J. Spurling, as well as half-
pit.
A different system is in juse innection with the scheme for utiliza-dozen other illustrations.
England. According to an official
Industrial Research, the Air Minis- of the Department of Scientific and
try have developed a system which Carrying this unusually fall equip depends on what is known as ment and load the machines, never-rotating loop beacon. Under this theless, averaged 98 ailes an hour system, if a 'plans is off its course, over a selected out and return it is a simple matter for the pilot
to get back on it again.. course, "taking off” in 200-yards.
The fifth machine is a standard Gipsy Moth" equipped for dual control tuition and communication work.
LORD AMULREe surveys THE R.A.F.
ing the roofs of railway stations as landing grounds, says:
I have discussed the plan with a representative of one of the main railway groups; and I believe it can be a tremendous success and can be put into operation in the immediate future.
"The autogiro acroplane, which
'ascends, and' descends almost ver- An offies) of Imperial Airways tically, has solved the great problem stated that the company had not of landing and taking-off in crowd installed the rotating beasoned arena. There has for some time system. since they were satisfied buen a great demand for closer with the present methods.
working between airways and other “We have three direction ånding forms of travel, particularly in stations, Croydon, Pulham and cities. The scheme we have in mind Important new facts about recent Lynne," he explained. "We can can, I believe, do away with all inform any pilot of his exact posi- the difficulties of the past, and operations of Royal Air Force nero-
tion within 30 or 40 seconds, and prove a great benefit to the travell planes and a grave statement on
we think our system gives more ing public. the present state of air armaments efficient results than would be ob throughout the world are nate. worthy features of the Air Ministained by the rotating loop heacon ter's memorandum issued with the operation, which is considerably Air Estimates for 1031, which will
be debated in the House of Com mons on Thursday this week.
more expensive to instal."
:
A 'PLANE THAT FLIES
ITSELF.
500 H.P. FAIREY NAPIER.
Now Design Air-Liners,
The building of the roof-top nerodromes is a simple matter. All
that is required is a clear space, roughly 100 yards long and the sume wide. These could easily be constructed above the majority of our big railway stations.
"The machines would be kept in hangars either on the ground level or on a special floor below the roof. Trapdoors and lifts of the typo.used in naval aircraft-carriers could be installed, to raise machines to the Innding-stage.
Comdr. Cooper takes us from his Parly days in sail, when, as Sir Arthur remarks, we learnt our job and what a sailor has to go. through, where we learned to jump up and face it each time we werd knocked on the head in the nature of a slippery deck, ni fall from aloft, or heavy green sess tumbling
on dock."
Thereaftor, the author takes us with him into steam, introduces un to Conrad, and provides us with cesays on the literature of the sea.
He had experience in torpedo". boats, was at Gallipoli and Salonica, and thus is able to show the warlike feet, as well as the peaceful trader. His torpedo-boat service was spent in command of one of the older type built in the 'eighties of the last century, in which hard lying money " was earned, as well as paid. She was for three months employed in Egyptian waters, patrolling thơ Bitter Lakes, Suez Canal, and that Mediterranean coast of Port Said -a monotonens existence running to and fro on a ten-mile course, with the inevitable cooling every 48 hours.
There are other and more plea The type of machine at presentsant memories of "1900 and war
The advance in speed and eff.
Tribute to the trustworthiness of ciency of British military aircraft daring recent years has an import. British aircraft and aero engines is ant bearing on this desired deve. implicit in the statement that long- distance flights undertaken by lopment of Empire air services. The latest Britishi one and two. Royal Air Force land and seaplanes senter, fighting aeroplanes, attain during the year 18-31 totalled speeds of approximately 20 and 115,000 machine-miles, without A new robot monoplane, which being built for us in England for 150 miles an hour respectively even single case of injury to personnel will, in effect, By itself, is now he use by private owners is only a time," and, altogether, Comur... when carrying a service lead; the or serious damage to aircraft." ing built in Britain for experi-senter, but there is no difficulty Cooper has compiled a most interest-
ments in long-distance. non-stop to net as
in manufacturing larger autogiroa ing volume, which by no means falls'
air-liners." intest multi-engined bombers are The flights thus reviewed include
fying.
We have come to the conclusion below the high standard of this little behind them. Experience the annual flight from Egypt to
about these machines for some time, notable nautical library, in which gained in the design, building and West Africa and hack, "extended
and are satisfied - that they are-su- Messrs Heath Oranton have pro- flying of these service planes is for the Brst time to Bathurst in the Napier, of 500 h... will have tirely safe, as easy to manage as any vidod descriptions of all classes of
storage accommodation for over ordinary aeroplane, with all the ad- Gambia, the cruise of three-nero- Planen from India to Siam and 1,000-gallons of petrol, enabling itvantage lacking in the machine ships and men, and particularly of
to fly over 8,000 miles without to land.
which needs a huge space in which dong past period when the win...
jahiler was employed. Singapore and back, the successful
alighting.
We have come to the concinpion- tour of 3,380 miles in Baltic waters
A robot pilot, evolved by Air that our scheme would be entirely by n squadron of large flying boats, Ministry experts. is to be fitted.bers of travellers. With the in-travel by rail and air throughout practical and n boon to great numi revolutionary change in methods of and the flying-hoat voyage from This will, when once act, kerts the troduction of air-rail stations the the country," -England-to-Iceland and back-
already being incorporated in the construction of civil aircraft cap. able of much improved perform.
ICO.
LIGHT AEROPLANES FOR
-IRAQ.
TORPEDOPLANES FOR SINGAPORE.
Lord Amuree mentions a flight
The
賤 new machine,
Fairey
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-machine-on-its-course-automation]tedious motor car journeys to nero-Plans-were recently put forward King Faisal of Iraq, has joined
iy, thus relieving the human pilot dromen on the outskirts of London to build a roof-top landing ground the ranks of, private, aeroplane
and other big towns would no for aeroplanes above Waterloo owners, Mechanics in the de Havil
of the strain of long non stop longer be necessary. On leaving a Station, and a number of other flights.
train you would step, into a 'diftites for aerodromes in the heart land Aircraft Company's inctory nt
It is intended to use this machine accend to the roof, and in a mat of London have been discussed.
Cost has always been a big pro- Edgware, pear London, are
new about which few facts have emerg to experiment with the possibilty of tor of moments, could be flying to
any part. pulting the final touches to 'a new
bfen, however, on account of the ed till now, the transference by | carrying' important officials from Central London Abródromes.
pient space necessary for an or Pusi Moth" light cabin mono- sen and air of No. 30 Torpedo | Britain to the R.A.F. headquarters "The through tiekot system,
dinary heroplane to land and take -plane ordered by the King for his Bomber squadron from, Britain, to abroad in the minimum of time, which could he introduced through landing stage suitable for personal use.
Singapore. Eight of these machines | An attempt will also be made to
smutual arrangement with the existing. nir linere, it has been railway companies concerned, The machine is finished in divery Hawker Horsley & h.p. Liplanes wreck the world's worst too would do away with the stated would cost several millions.
Pre Machines of the autogiro type, how- aluminium paint and is fitted with-were transported to: Karachi by distance record by flying from sent bother, and fun of a journeyer need only small landing "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, LTD.,.. sun blinds; otherwise it is exactlysta and, after assembly, were flown Britain to Capetown, a distance of by nir. At ghen the rehëpie 5s in pace, and their possibilities in this
similar to the Prince of Wales's 11: Jun Hoven ÜTAKET,
on in two formations to Singapore, .000 miles, without a stop in 00hopes that the future, will enterest and discussion in railway ita halyhood, but we have great respect are therefore arousing wide TRÍXPHONE: 80251;-
1031.modes Russ Moth," which is la,400 miles away.`-'
Abours.
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